On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, jim s wrote:
we had people who could do data entry at full keying
speed on our systems
with a Microdata Reality system running 32 terminal. Mind you this was on a
system with an 8 bit microprogrammed data base system, virtual memory, and
interpreted Basic as the system applications implementation language.
The last place I worked used something similar, although we used UniVerse
on a Sparc 10 that hosted 40+ users. Our data entry application was
highly specialized - it was a strict top-down flow without so much as a
single screen addressed field. You started off entering the pro # from
the freight bill and cranked on through the whole thing and then entered
the pro # again as the last step. We had some astonishingly fast data
entry people.
g.
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